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Aid struggles to reach survivors as Sudan dam collapse, floods wreak havoc
People pick up aid delivered on an excavator following devastating floods, in Port Sudan, Sudan, August 26, 2024. REUTERS/El Tayeb Siddig
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After weeks of peace talks, no end in sight for devastating wars in Sudan and Congo
Sudanese, displaced from the town of Sinjah, receive humanitarian aid at their makeshift camp in the eastern city of Gedaref on August 22, 2024. (Photo by Ebrahim Hamid / AFP) (Photo by EBRAHIM HAMID/AFP via Getty Images)
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At least 30 killed in Sudan dam collapse, number could be much higher, U.N. says
This picture shows the destroyed Arbaat Dam, 40km north of Port Sudan that collapsed following heavy rains and torrential floods on August 25, 2024. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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Mali drone strikes kill at least 21 in northern town, rebels say
A UN flag and Mali flag fly over a memorial on the MINUSMA Main Operations Base in Bamako, Mali, Africa on Saturday, June 23, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Tanzania’s Maasai protest eviction in the name of conservation
Maasai people at a protest against the threat of eviction from their land. Photo taken on March 16, 2022 at Endulen village, inside the Ngorongoro conservation area in Tanzania. Photo credit to Robert Bociaga
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WHO says partners can start talks to buy mpox vaccines before their approval
A family nurse practitioner prepares a syringe with the Mpox vaccine for inoculating a patient at a vaccination site in the Brooklyn borough of New York, on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Jeenah Moon
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Canada’s new Africa strategy to be unveiled by end of year, Joly says
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada his imposed sanctions on 10 people and six entities on the anniversary of the fraudulent 2020 presidential elections in Belarus. Joly speaks with reporters in the Foyer of the House of Commons before Question Period, in Ottawa, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Survivors of genocide in Rwanda’s villages have walked a long path to reconciliation and forgiveness
Mukaremera Laurence and Nkundiye Thacien work together in Thacien's garden. Mbyo, Bugesera, Rwanda. Photo taken in Bugesera, Rwanda, March 29, 2024.
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Why has WHO declared mpox a global health emergency? We answered your questions
The World Health Organization (WHO) logo is seen near its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, February 2, 2023.
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Hundreds of Sudanese refugees seek shelter in Chad every day, in world’s worst displacement crisis
A family gathers in front of their makeshift shelter in Adre, surrounded by rudimentary structures made of branches and tarpaulin. The lack of basic amenities, such as clean water and proper sanitation, highlights the harsh conditions they endure daily on July 18, 2024 in Acre, Chad.
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Mpox vaccinations could begin as soon as next week in hardest-hit African countries
FILE PHOTO: People collect water from taps at the Muja camp for the internally displaced persons amid an outbreak of Mpox, an infectious disease caused by the monkeypox virus that causes a painful rash, enlarged lymph nodes and fever, in Nyiragongo territory, near Goma in North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo August 19, 2024. REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi/File Photo
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Kenya will reintroduce some tax proposals that sparked deadly protests
FILE - Protesters block the busy Nairobi - Mombasa highway in the Mlolongo area, Nairobi, Kenya, July 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, file)
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Congo says it will receive its first mpox vaccines next week to address new global emergency
A health worker attends to a mpox patient, at a treatment centre in Munigi, eastern Congo, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. Congo will receive the first vaccine doses to address its mpox outbreak next week from the United States, the country's health minister said Monday, days after the World Health Organization declared mpox outbreaks in Africa a global emergency. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
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Joly heads to Africa as Canada revives a long-stalled strategy
A woman walk away with her children suffering from mpox after a treatment at a clinic in Munigi, eastern Congo, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. Congo will receive the first vaccine doses to address its mpox outbreak next week from the United States, the country's health minister said Monday, days after the World Health Organization declared mpox outbreaks in Africa a global emergency. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
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Congo hopes to receive first mpox vaccines by next week
A health worker attends to a mpox patient, at a treatment centre in Munigi, eastern Congo, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. Congo will receive the first vaccine doses to address its mpox outbreak next week from the United States, the country's health minister said Monday, days after the World Health Organization declared mpox outbreaks in Africa a global emergency. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
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Q&A: What do I need to know about the mpox health emergency?
Dr. Olivier Ngajole, medical advisor to the MEDAIR, talks with Dr. Pascaline Kahindo about the evolution of Mpox at the treatment centre in Munigi in Democratic Republic of the Congo last month.
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Joly announces $1-million to help stem mpox in Africa as Ottawa crafts continental plan
Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly speaks with reporters in the foyer of the House of Commons on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed at least 22 people, health minister says
A man disinfects a rural isolation centre where patients are being treated for cholera in Wad Al-Hilu in Kassala state in eastern Sudan, on August 17, 2024. Sudan's health minister on August 17 declared a cholera epidemic after weeks of heavy rain in the war-torn country, in a video released by his ministry. The northeast African country has been engulfed in a war since April 2023 between the Sudanese army under the country's de facto ruler Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo. (Photo by Ebrahim Hamid / AFP) (Photo by EBRAHIM HAMID/AFP via Getty Images)
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Sudan's paramilitary fighters killed 85 people in an attack on a central village, residents say
This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)
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The mpox outbreak is a public-health emergency, but is it the next pandemic?
André Picard
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